A Fantastic start to the year!
Spring Newsletter 2015 A Fantastic start to the year! Dear friends, Uusinta Ensemble enjoyed a fantastic start to the year by opening its spring season with a performance focusing on body action at the open music concert programme in Graz, Austria on January 11. Invited by Ute Pinter the ensemble performed among others Michael Maierhof’s Plastikquartet 2 . Soon after Graz, January 30, Uusinta made an appearance at the Kaustinen Chamber Music Week with a concert focusing on the Finnish composer and professor at the Sibelius Academy, Veli-Matti Puumala, and premiering his latest work N achklang . The spring season was rounded off with a concert at the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki curated by Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen. Uusinta musicians had the pleasure to perform with the pianist Nicolas Hodges under the direction of composer and this-time-conductor Magnus Lindberg. With each composer present at the rehearsals and the concert, the musicians enjoyed a rich exchange of thoughts. This concert did not lack of a world premiere and this time Uusinta performed Village Party by Finnish composer Riikka Talvitie composed for the oboe and a string quartet. The piece was written for oboist Anna-Kaisa Pippuri (reviewed by the Financial Times as fearless) and included a tap dance solo by her. Read the Financial Times review of the Musica Nova concert here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ad86d9ce-b113-11e4-831b-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl #axzz3RcY2AGmE Listen to the Musica Nova performance here: http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2546254 (clip available until 13.3.2015) Past performances 2015 February 11th 2015 at 7 PM MUSICA NOVA HELSINKI House of Nobility, Helsinki Jérôme Combier Riikka Talvitie Fred Lerdahl Christian Winther Christensen Pascal Dusapin Uusinta Ensemble Magnus Lindberg, conductor Nicolas Hodges, piano Lichen Village Party (premiere) Time after Time String Quartet Jetzt Genau! Spring Newsletter 2015 January 30th 2015 at 6:30 PM IN FOCUS: VELI-MATTI PUUMALA Kaustinen Chamber Music Week Veli-Matti Puumala Alexander Scriabin Veli-Matti Puumala Tristan Murail Veli-Matti Puumala Pierre Boulez Luciano Berio Karlheinz Stockhausen Veli-Matti Puumala Gabriel Fauré Helmut Lachenmann Beat Furrer Veli-Matti Puumala Veli-Matti Puumala Three movements from Symbo Etude op.74/4 Three preludes from Hommages fugitifs Cloches D’adieu, et un Sourire… Fragment from Caprifoglio Notations VI Duet ‘Henri’ (arr. by Veli-Matti Puumala) Klavierstück VII Nachklang (premiere) Piano trio in D minor Toccatina Aer Envol String Quartet January 11th 2015 at 8 PM KLANG-OBJEKT-KÖRPER-KLANG open music Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz Simon Steen-Andersen Ville Raasakka Simon Løffler Jagoda Szmytka Michael Maierhof Peter Ablinger Malin Bång Run Time Error (2009) video installation a natural habitat 2 (2014) for amplified violin and viola (premiere) b (2012) for 3 musicians, 3 neonlights, effectpedals and a loose jack cable Körperwelten (2008) for amplified string instrument, audio files and video Plastikquartett 2 (1997) for 4 players and plastic cups Weiss/Weisslich 3 (1990) for ensemble a r c h i n g (2013) for amplified cello, amplified tools and electronics Uusinta Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland) combined instruments, objects, bodily performance and electronics in its performative concert Klang-Objekt-Körper-Klang. In Simon Løffler’s work ‘b’ neonlights were played with skin contact attached to electronics. Malin Bång has written a work for amplified cello and timber tools such as saw and rasp. Sounds from within the human body are heard in Jagoda Szmytka’s work Körperwelten.
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